WFP In Numbers

Country Brief 2,734 mt of food assistance distributed May 2021 USD 297,364 cash transferred under assistance to refugees and IDPs

US$ 14.6 m net funding requirements for the next six months (June - November 2021)

660,992 people assisted in May 2021 52% 48%

Operational Updates Operational Context Assistance to refugees According to October 2020 IPC results, 11 percent of the WFP provided 594 mt of in-kind food and cash-based transfers population is facing emergency and crisis levels of food (CBT) of USD 259,401 to 50,631 refugees (22,278 males, insecurity (phases 3 and 4). The Joint Approach to Nutrition and Food Security Assessment (JANFSA) carried 28,353 females, 13,670 children aged 6-59 months and 2,025 out in December 2018 revealed that 44.8 percent of the people aged over 60 years). In-kind food consisted of cereals, population were food insecure, with 9.7 percent in severe vegetable oil and salt. Cash based transfers were provided to food insecurity. Provinces affected by severe food substitute beans (pulses) which were yet to arrive in country. insecurity include Karusi (18.8 percent), Gitega (17.5 The provision of pulses will resume in June. percent), Muramvya (16.0 percent), Kirundo (14.3 Assistance to returnees percent), and Mwaro (12.5 percent). The high population density, as well as the new influx of returnees from WFP assisted 8,081 Burundi returnees (3,960 males and 4,121 Tanzania and refugees from DRC, contributes to females) with 356 mt of in-kind food. The assistance consisted competition and disputes over scarce natural resources. of hot meals provided at the transit centres, and a three- Due to the demand for land, the poorest and most month return package consisting of cereals, pulses, vegetable vulnerable populations, mainly women, generally depend oil and salt. This facilitated the re-integration of returnees in on marginal land. their communities. Over 90 percent of the population depends on agriculture Food assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) for their livelihood. Burundi’s preparedness for emergencies and crises is weak and cannot cope with WFP also used a combination of CBT and in-kind food to assist severe shocks such as droughts, epidemics, and floods, 14,515 IDPs including households displaced by the rising which often claim lives and undermine livelihoods. waters of Lake Tanganyika in Rumonge province, and those Burundi is the second country most affected by chronic affected by flooding in Gatumba, . A total of 141 mt malnutrition in the world. According to the SMART 2020, of food and CBT worth USD 30,423 was transferred. Cash the national average stunting rate is at 52 percent well based transfers were provided to substitute beans. above the emergency threshold (40 percent). WFP has been present in Burundi since 1968. Treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) Treatment of moderate acute malnutrition activities were implemented in Cankuzo, Kirundo, Ngozi, and Rutana provinces reaching some 7,570 moderately malnourished pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWGs), and 9,219 children aged 6-59 months with 128 mt of specialized nutritious foods. Distributions were coupled with social behaviour change communication (SBCC) implemented by Community Workers. Prevention of chronic malnutrition Under stunting prevention, WFP reached 43,546 children aged 6-23 months and 22,879 PLWGs with 230 mt of specialized nutritious food in . Activities included a strong SBCC component. School Feeding Programme

The school feeding programme reached 503,716 school children with 1,285 mt of food (including 148 mt of milk) in Bubanza, Cibitoke, Bujumbura, Muyinga, Gitega, Ngozi and 2019 Human Development Index: Kirundo Provinces. Population: 11.7 million 185 out of 189

65 percent Burundians live Chronic malnutrition: 52% of under the poverty line children between 6-59 months WFP Burundi Country Brief May 2021 WFP provided USD 7,540 to 835 people who participated in WFP Country Strategy the joint FAO/UNICEF/UNFPA/WFP Community Resilience- Building project implemented in Bubanza, Ruyigi and Interim Country Strategic Plan (2018-2021) Cankuzo provinces in February and March 2021. They had not received their entitlements in March due to errors Total Requirement Allocated Contributions Six Month Net Fundingnoticed during distribution including beneficiary registration (in USD) (in USD) Requirements (in USD) in SCOPE. 270.1 m 1.6 m 14.6 mSupply Chain Strategic Result 1: Everyone has access to food  WFP delivered 2,877 mt of food to beneficiaries in May Strategic Outcome 1: Crisis-affected populations including refugees in camps, across all its programmes. internally displaced people (IDPs), and returnees in targeted areas are able to meet their basic food needs all year round.  In its coordination and facilitation role as part of the Lake Focus area: Crisis Response Tanganyika Corridor revitalization initiative, WFP,

Activities: working in close collaboration with the Ministry of  Provide unconditional food and/or cash-based assistance to refugees in camps; Transport and Maritime Authorities, is preparing training  Provide unconditional and/or conditional food and/or cash-based assistance to severely food insecure households among local populations, IDPs, and sessions on port operations/warehousing/safety . returnees;  In consortium with UNICEF and IOM and through USAID  Provide capacity strengthening to Government and humanitarian partners on early warning systems, emergency food security assessments and analysis, and funding, WFP is providing technical support to the food security and market monitoring. Ministry of Health in the COVID-19 response. WFP has

Strategic Result 1: Everyone has access to food installed 10 containers to be used as stores for medicine in priority health districts and the drug central store in Strategic Outcome 2: Food insecure households in targeted areas have safe access to adequate and nutritious food all year round Bujumbura. Focus area: Crisis Response

Activities: Monitoring  Provide conditional food and/or cash-based assistance to food-insecure households through productive assets creation, livelihood diversification, and  In May, WFP and its partners received 355 feedback nutrition counselling;  Provide Home Grown school meals to school-aged children and support national and complaints from beneficiaries through the institutions on the formulation of a national home-grown school meals policy and complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM). Out of social protection programmes. these, 337 were resolved, and 18 are currently being Strategic Result 2: No one suffers from malnutrition addressed. Most of the complaints and feedback included requests for information and entitlements Strategic Outcome 3: Children 6-59 months, adolescent girls, and pregnant and lactating women (PLW), in the targeted provinces and communes have improved claims, mostly cash based transfers and non-food nutritional status throughout the year. Focus area: Resilience Building items in refugee camps and assisted schools.

Activities:  Provide specialized nutritious foods in combination with SBCC activities to children, Challenges adolescent girls, and PLW/G, and support the implementation of a national food fortification policy and strategy. Lack of funding continues to negatively impact WFP’s operations, particularly food assistance for refugees. Strategic Result 3: Smallholder productivity and incomes The food basket for refugees continues to face shortages Strategic Outcome 4: Food-insecure smallholders and communities in targeted in SuperCereal resulting in the reduction of the calorific areas have enhanced livelihoods to better support food security and nutrition needs by 2020. value from 2,100 Kcal to 1,900 kcal per person per day. Focus area: Root Causes In addition, constrained funding has led to delayed start- Activities: up of treatment of moderate acute malnutrition  Provide technical support on post-harvest solutions, equipment, and capacity building (SBCC will be used to empower smallholder farmers to improve post- activities and nutrition support to people living with HIV harvest management and enhanced food diversification) to smallholder farmers on antiretroviral treatment and people with tuberculosis and farmers’ organizations/cooperatives. (TB), which was strongly recommended by the 2018 Strategic Result 8: Enhance global partnership Joint Assessment Mission in refugees camps. Furthermore, WFP anticipates cereal shortages in July, Strategic Outcome 5: Government, humanitarian and development partners have access to effective supply chain management and logistics all year round. August, November, and December 2021. If no additional Focus area : Resilience Building funding is received, the food security and nutrition Activities: situation for refugees’ will be further compromised.  Provide on-demand services for the humanitarian community and development partners.  Provide technical assistance through the logistics sector to the National Disaster Under food assistance for returnees, IDPs and other food- Platform and humanitarian partners to improve emergency logistics coordination and supply chain management insecure populations, WFP anticipates a funding shortfall of cereals in July, August, November and December; Strategic Result 5: Countries have strengthened capacity to implement the SDGs and a beans shortage in November and December. WFP Strategic Outcome 6: Government and partner institutions and systems in Burundi has identified and confirmed internal funding have enhanced supply chain capacities by end of 2021. Focus area: Crisis response mechanism of USD 1.5 million as well as an expected CERF funding of USD 0.5 million to fill the gap. Activities:  Provide capacity strengthening through supply chain technical advice and services to the Government of Burundi and to humanitarian and development Donors (in alphabetical order): partners Burundi, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Global Assets creation and livelihoods Partnership for Education, Hilton Foundation, Japan, Kerry Group, Monaco, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, UNCERF, United States of America, World Bank Photo: Food distribution to people affected by flooding in Mutimbuzi/Bujumbura. © WFP/Aurore Ishimwe Contact info: Jacques David ([email protected]) Country Director: Housainou Taal ([email protected]) Further information: https://www.wfp.org/countries/burundi

WFP Burundi Country Brief May 2021